Title: Legendary Nights – The Tale of Hagler v Hearns
Released: 2003
Plot: This week marked the 30th anniversary of the legendary 1985 middleweight title fight between the undisputed champion, ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, and the challenger, Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns.
It lasted just eight minutes and one second — eight minutes and one second that are now remembered in boxing history, simply, as ‘The War.’
Random YouTube comment: “These two guys weren’t boxers. You can box all day. These two were fighters. They went at each other like two guys in an alley with nothing to lose.”
Watch it in full here:
The most disappointing three games I’ve ever watched Ireland play (and I’m including the 60-0 defeat to NZ in 2012)
3 Ireland v Japan World Cup qualifier 2019 Unbelievable
2 Ireland v Argentina QF World Cup 2015 Left a bitter taste
1 England v Ireland 57-15 in a World Cup warm up Truly frightening in its ineptitude
Joe gets all the plaudits and mostly that’s correct. But boy, did Ireland play some mummified, ossified, turgid rugby when he was around. We will always owe Joe for Soldier Field. But I’d be much more concerned if Andy Farrell was in the NZ camp and Joe was our coach. Andy leaves a great big vapour trail of magic and hope in his wake. Whatever happens Saturday, wow for what you’ve done, Andy. Just wow.
@Liam O’Flynn: strange you rank a meaningless pool game and warm up game so high?
@brian o’leary:
Hi Brian. The penny dropped during that game that other teams had figured us out. We were too one-dimensional and were playing the same ‘structured’ rugby that got us into trouble in the last World Cup. We couldn’t change from giving the ball to Stander to bosh and biff up the middle. Jack Carty took the bullet for the Japan game and that was unfair. Anyway, I’m just trying to put some perspective on his tenure. A mix of the glorious and the ungainly. Lots of highs but boy some real lows too.
@Liam O’Flynn: fair enough, although I think you undermine your point by rating meaningless games above say grand slam decider 2003 v Eng, 2003 WC v Fra, 2011 WC v Wales, even 2007 WC v Georgia?
@brian o’leary:
Last point Brian. I never saw playing England as meaningless no matter what the occasion. To me it is THE match. I respect your views, though.
@brian o’leary: Brian , those were sh!t shows no doubt, but all of them occurred before Joe took over in 2012, so no relevanve to the earlier posts? Unless I’m missing something?
@Liam O’Flynn: Of course it was meaningless. The English match you shouldve put in there was Ireland losing to England on that opening 6N game of 2019, THAT was deflating at the time and in hindsight was truly the beginning of the end. Joe Schmidt, genius to à point. Ran his course with Ireland. The real question is, at what stage of the course is he with NZ?
@Conor Kelly: did he say he only started watching rugby in 2012?
Schmidt is yesterday’s man. The game has moved on. He did a decent job with Ireland but the two World Cup debacles under him will never be forgotten. That New Zealand pack is nowhere near physical enough. Ireland by 10 plus.
It’ll be tough on Schmidt, loosing three quater finals in a row. :P
@niall kelly: I’m too pumped for this match to spell correctly apparently. Hon Ireland!
Ireland are a more settled team,we have their number and the hunger for this competition !
He really exposed a lot of weaknesses against NZ in 2019..
Please Joe, please beat the West Brit Brigade, the thought of listening to them around the Moines full of Heino
@MartyCharles: lol I wonder how many will bite?
@MartyCharles: King Charles may be the NZ head of State and they may be part of the Commonwealth. But West Brit brigade is a bit much.
@MartyCharles: you get bored waiting for poo v spursey rematch so you spouting shi*here
@MartyCharles: oh watch on the Loserpool fan trolling in Irish rugby articles. Sad sad individual!
@MartyCharles: Clown of the week award goes to you !
@Jb Walshe: nah, you get clown of the week for being daft enough to bite back at his comment.
@mark sheehan: haha and you get clown of the week for the double bite… Genius.
@mark sheehan: I like your single “like” there btw, it’s probably prince Charles himself. Quit being caught in a los-r mentality, it’s really not healthy and get behind Ireland, you know its your country and you want them to do the biz.
@MartyCharles: lol. Say that to Furlong and O’Mahony face to face..